Improvement in printing names of subscribers upon newspapers



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY MOESER, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN PRINTING NAMES OF SUBSCRIBERS UPON NEWSPAPERS, 8m.

`Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 8,175, dated June S4,1851.

To all whom it may concern:

Be itknown that I, HENRY MonsER, of Pittsburg, in the county ofAllegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and usefulMachine for Printing Names of Persons or Places on N ewspapers and otherPeriodical Papers, Letters, &c.; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction`and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawing's,making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a perspectiveview; Fig. 2, a transverse Vertical section; Fig. 8, a longitudinalVertical section; Figs. 4 to 7, a plan view and sections of some partsreferrcd to in the following description.

The machine consists of levers, a slide, and a set of types, combined insuch a`manner that it is possible to print with it any number of nameson papers or letters. Thus to print the names of subscribers onnewspapers the following plan is pursued. The names (of persons orplaces) to be printed are set up in type in a column and secured in aform which' moves by means of a slide beneath a stamp in such a mannerthat every word in the column, one after another, is exposed to theaction of the stamp, and so that paper after paper brought between thestamp and the types gets the proper impression.

The same letters of reference indicate like parts.

A is the column of names to be printed set lip in types.

B is the form orframe which contains the types, the letters beingsecuredin it by means of the screw S.

O is a slide onwhich the form B rests.

D is the slide-bed on which the slide moves.

E is the foot on which, by means of some screws, the slide-bed isfastened. The footis secured on any pedestal or table by some screws,for which purpose some holes (one of them is visible at U) are provided.

F is the main lever, with a handle by means of which the pressure iseffected. T is a counter-balance of the lever.

G is thestamp which acts on the paper to be printed and presses it downon the types.

H is a plate, which lies close over the types,

`and by pressing the main lever down.

but does not touch thcm. It is concave-shaped and provided with a slit.Fig. 4 is a plan view of it, and Figs. 5 and (i longitudnal andtransverse Sections of the same in natural size. By this shape of theplate H, as well as by the rounded shape of the stamp G, (represented inFig. 7 in transverse section in nat ural size,) any paper broughtbetween the stamp and the plate is allowed' to be pressed down on thatline of the column of names which is left uucovered by the slit of theplate, while the paper at the same time is shielded from the linesadjoining that under action. The plate H is connected with thefoot-piece E by a pin and supported by the form B.

I is a springpawl which meshes into the racks cut on the under-side ofthe slide C.

K is an arm connected With the spring-pawl by a pin.

L is another arm secured on the shaft of the arm K and connected withthe main lever F by the link M. It is evident that each raising of themain lever will produce a motion of the slide, the proportion of thearms K and L being` such that the advance of the slide at every strokeis equal to the distance of one rack on the slide from the other. Thisdistance agrees with the distance from line to line in the column A.

N is a wedge with a handle O, which supports the spring' of the pawl I.By drawing the wedge back the spring-pawl sets down and gets out ofconnection with the racks, so that the slide then may be moved freelyo'n its bed.

Before the operation of the machine is to commence the whole set ofnames in the form is inked at once and put on the slide so that I thefirst name in the column is right under the slit of the plate H, and theimpression is effected then by holding the paper on which the name is tobe printed under the staip y raising the leveragain the slide moves bythe action of the spring-pawl I so much that the second name of thecolumn gets beneath the stamp, and if then another paper is broughtunder the stamp the second name will be printed on it by pressing themain lever down, i

and so forth, till the whole number of names is printed on therespective papers. If one form is'not suffioient to contain the wholelist of names, a second or more' forms :may be applied.

What I elaim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The arrangement and construction of a machine for printing names ofpersons or places on newspapers and other papers after the mannersubstan tially as desoribed-viz., of aV form oontaining the column ofnames to be printed set up in types, and being,` brought under theaction of a stamp by means of a slide moving by degrees, together withthe application of a slitted plate, allowing the paper to be printed tobe pressed down on the line right beneath the slit of the plate, andshielding the paper from the lines adjoining` that under action of thestamp,`as hereinbefore desoribed.

HENRY MOESER. Witnesses:

Jos. CAsEY, CHAs. MERRILL.

